27 Best recipes of low calorie Indian food for weight loss

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Low calorie food often equals weight loss that is what most people normally want. Weight loss is a mixture of diet and exercise, but today VKoolsite will introduce some low calorie Indian food recipes that help in losing weight. Here is the menu for low calorie Indian food for weight loss. Keep reading this post to discover these low calorie Indian food recipes.

Low Calorie Indian Food For Weight Loss: 27 Best Recipes You Should Know

4. Paneer Ka Chilla

Heat oil in a pan. Then, mix the besan mixture in that pan till there’s no lumps left in this mixture.

Now pour the mixture into that pan and cook gently from both sides until golden brown.

Fill in this paneer mixture as done and after that serve hot.

5. Low Calorie Upma

How to make this low calorie Indian food recipe for weight loss? Here are detailed guides:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of semolina (sooji)

1/2 inch finely chopped ginger

1 finely chopped small onion

1 finely chopped green chili

1 teaspoon of black mustard seed

1 teaspoon of black gram

1 teaspoon of Bengal gram

Few curry leaves

2 teaspoons of oil

Salt to taste

1 teaspoon of lemon juice

1/2 teaspoon of finely chopped coriander leaves

Water

Procedure:

Heat a pan and next dry roast this sooji on a low flame until one nice aroma comes out. Then, take out on one plate. Ensure the sooji doesn’t get too brown.

Now in a pan, heat 2 teaspoons of oil and after that add mustard seed and curry leaves. When the mustard seeds start to crack, add urad dal, chana dal and green chili as well. Fry it for some minutes.

Add onions and fry until it is translucent. Then, add ginger and sauté for two minutes and add 1/2 cup water and salt to it and leave the water to boil. Then gradually add sooji.

You can also add a few chopped vegetables like beans, carrot, and cauliflower. Sauté them with ginger.

Keep stirring it often so that no lumps are made.

Cover it for some seconds and leave it to cook till it starts getting pulpy.

Turn off the heat and lastly add lemon juice and then mix it well.

Garnish the upma with coriander leaves.

6. Mattar Tofu (Paneer)

Ingredients:

2 cloves garlic – minced

1/4 to 1/3 cup frozen peas

1 red onion

Extra firm tofu, cut into cubes

3/4-1 bottle Maya Kaimal Madras Curry

Procedure:

Sauté the onions and garlic with 1 teaspoon of canola oil over medium – high heat, till these onions have cooked down plus are translucent.

Add the tofu, the peas and the curry sauce, stir to combine.

Leave it all to simmer together for around 10-15 minutes, till that Mattar Tofu is cooked through plus ready to eat.

7. Soya Chunks Bhurji

Here is the recipe to make this low calorie Indian food:

Ingredients:

1 cup of soya chunks

1 chopped onion

1 chopped bell pepper

1/2 teaspoon of mustard seeds

1/2 teaspoon of fennel seeds

1 teaspoon of ginger- garlic paste

1 teaspoon of chilli powder

1 teaspoon of coriander powder

1/2 teaspoon of garam masala

1/4 teaspoon of turmeric powder

Lime (optional)

Kasoori methi (optional)

A few coriander leaves

Oil

Salt

Procedure:

In a vessel, boil about three cups of water, add a little salt and soya chunks. Leave it to cook for ten minutes.

Turn off the stove, close its vessel with a lid and set it aside for 15 minutes. Then, drain this water and once cooled, lightly squeeze out the water from these soya chunks. Now pulse these soya chunks in one blender about 2-3 times to gain a crumbled form. Leave aside.

Heat oil in one pan. Splutter fennel and mustard seeds. Sauté ginger-garlic paste and onion until the onions become slight brown.

Beat egg whites until stiff and then fold in carefully into this mixture.

Season with salt and now pour this mixture into one greased baking tray.

Sprinkle grated cottage cheese over it and after that bake on medium temperature for 30 minutes.

25. Weet And Sour Vegetables

This low calorie Indian food recipe is easy to make at home.

Ingredients:

1 sliced onion

1 teaspoon of turmeric

1 tablespoon of oil

1 teaspoon of fenugreek seeds

1 teaspoon of cumin seed

1 teaspoon of aniseed

1/2 teaspoon of onion seeds

200 grams of brinjals (biangan)

10 grams of chopped green chilly

100 grams of yellow and red capsicum, cut into strips

500 grams of chopped cabbage

1 tablespoon of vinegar

150 grams of French beans

Sugar or artificial sweetener to taste

Procedure:

In a pan, heat oil and next fry the onions until they turn transparent.

Then, add fenugreek, cummin, onion seeds and aniseed and fry for one minute.

Add chillies and turmeric.

Stir in cauliflower, sugar (or artificial sweetener) and cabbage.

Cover and then cook on one low flame for around 5 to 7 minutes.

Add pepper strips and now sprinkle vinegar on top.

Cook for another 5 minutes until the vegetables are tender.

26. Garlic Tomato Soup

How to make this low calorie Indian food recipe? Here are detailed directions:

Ingredients:

6 medium sized tomatoes

10 grams of gelatin powder

2 cloves garlic

2 bay leaves

½ teaspoon of crushed pepper corn

½ teaspoon of mixed herbs
Salt to taste

4 tablespoons of port wine (optional)

2 teaspoons of skimmed milk yogurt

2 teaspoons of lemon juice

4 sprigs fresh mint

Procedure:

Wash and finely chop these tomatoes. Next peel garlic and crush. Then, soak the gelatin in quarter cup of cold water and keep.

In a saucepan, cook the tomatoes together with the bay leaves, crushed garlic and cook these tomatoes in one saucepan along with the bay leaves, crushed game, and crushed pepper corn for around 5-6 minutes or till soft.

Take it out the heat, cover and keep to infuse for 20 minutes.

Remove these bay leaves, puree this mixture and pass using a sieve.

Stir in the salt, mixed herbs, and wine. Now whisk this skimmed milk yogurt and then mix into this tomato mixture.

Heat the gelatin gently on a double boiler in order to dissolve and add to that tomato mixture. After that, mix in this lemon juice and now stir well.

For individual serving, pour this into the small ceramic pots. Refrigerate for threat to 4 hours to set. Don’t freeze.

Now gradually add water and make one fine batter for this dosa. Ensure there are no lumps.

Heat a nonstick tawa and keep the flame low.

Now pour about 4 tablespoons of batter and then spread it in a circular motion on that tawa using a ladle to create a circular chilla.

As the top side starts getting dry, you pour oil (few drops) from all sides. Test the lower side if it has become brown flip the side slightly and then cook the other side. Hold pressing the chilla often with a flat spatula.

When brown, serve the palak chillas hot with tomato or green chutney sauce.

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